PROGRAM MANAGER - CYBERSECURITY

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Overview

Uptime Institute is an unbiased advisory organization focused on improving the performance, efficiency, and reliability of business-critical infrastructure through innovation, collaboration, and independent certifications. For over 30 years, the company has established industry-leading benchmarks for data center performance, resilience, sustainability, security and efficiency, which provide customers assurance that their digital infrastructure can perform across a wide array of operating conditions at a level consistent with their individual business needs. Uptime Institute serves all stakeholders responsible for IT service availability through industry leading standards, education, peer-to-peer networking, consulting, and award programs delivered to enterprise organizations and third-party operators, manufacturers, and providers. Offerings include the organization’s Tier Standard and Certifications, Management & Operations reviews, and awards, SCIRA-FSI financial sector risk assessment, and a broad range of additional risk management, as well as performance, availability, and sustainability offerings.

Uptime Institute has unparalleled expertise in helping organizations plan, build, operate and optimize world-class digital infrastructure. With over 3,000 projects completed in over 120 countries to date, Uptime has paved new ground in the implementation of programs that help organizations to advance the detection and mitigation of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) operational and cyber risk.

Uptime Institute, the Global Digital Infrastructure Authority is headquartered in New York, NY, with main offices in London, Madrid, São Paulo, Dubai, Riyadh, Singapore, and Taipei.

About the Role

Uptime Institute is seeking a dynamic and experiencedPROGRAM MANAGER CYBERSECURITYto join our innovative team. This is a unique opportunity to help establish a global approach to data center cybersecurity by leveraging Uptime’s position as the Global Data Center Authority.

The successful candidate will work in conjunction with the Uptime Institute team, developing short and long-term technical and go-to-market strategies for Uptime’s growing set of cybersecurity services, driving requirements and improvement initiatives, developing product roadmaps with actionable plans, leading cross-functional teams both internally and externally, and championing the execution and rollout of initiatives globally.

• Developing strategies and consulting services designed to help clients protect digital infrastructure against cyber threats across their IT estate: owned sites and third-party MSP, Cloud Services, SaaS and Colocation suppliers.
• Continuously evolving Uptime Institute cybersecurity services roadmap & scope parameters, to improve service offerings against the expanding cybersecurity norms and standards relevant to data centers.
• Identifying and managing cybersecurity program development partners and advisory board in line with the company’s objective of engaging the global community on an ongoing basis to ensure cybersecurity offerings map to current and future market and regulatory requirements.
• Planning and monitoring program execution, project coordination and managing project interdependencies, identifying and addressing problems and risks, program documentation, stakeholder communications, negotiations, and problem-solving.
• Responsible for establishing sales processes, training of technical and sales teams, product launch, and ongoing marketing programs in partnership with relevant functional areas.

Credentials and Experience

• The candidate should have a working knowledge of cybersecurity approaches and processes for data centers and digital infrastructure. An understanding of infrastructure engineering/application engineering expertise is essential.
• The successful candidate will have exposure to developing and implementing cybersecurity programs in global organizations, with robust knowledge of technology, architectures, and related tools.
• The candidate will have detailed working knowledge of the European/Global regulatory environment governing cybersecurity together with a deep understanding of ISO27001, NIST-SP800, NIS-2, IEC62443, EN50600 and other common standards.
• CISSP, CISM and/or CISA certifications would be beneficial but equivalent experience or demonstrable equivalent knowledge will also be accepted.
• Cyber, Security, Information Security leadership, Technology, Management, Risk Management and Governance, Incident Response, Security Remediation, Security Policy Creation, Third Party Risk Management, Attack Surface Management Creation exposure and experience essential.
• The role holder will possess first-hand knowledge of the Enterprise’s typical digital infrastructure estates and will have demonstrable experience working with IT management to successfully create cybersecurity frameworks and capabilities covering both data center IT and OT systems & processes.
• The role holder will have experience in creating and maintaining the service taxonomy for cybersecurity.
• The role-holder will have experience originating cybersecurity programs and building business cases to secure funding for cybersecurity initiatives.
• The role holder will have experience in coordinating with internal compliance and IT audit groups and with regulatory agencies.

Skills

• Strong technology and/or ICT experience obtained via a career in industry or another cybersecurity services provider/consultancy.
• Knowledge of the latest infrastructure technology trends, and an appreciation of the opportunities and risks they present.
• Demonstrated ability to build effective client relationships with multiple stakeholders across IT, facilities, and compliance functions.
• Ability to think creatively, generate innovative ideas, question the status quo at our clients’ operations and deliver effectively against challenging objectives.
• Utilize analytical skills to identify and challenge perceived or actual conflicts between operational resilience and sustainability initiatives.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Ability to work iteratively, delivering quickly and frequently to produce high-quality documents and outputs which require little to no rework.
• Multilingual; English as a first language with Arabic or Spanish as a second.
• Madrid or London Office/Remote

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology, Product Management, and Consulting
• Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting and Engineering Services

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